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Vijay murder leads cops to Haryana

JAIPUR: A day after the absconding accused in Dara Singh encounter case - Vijay Kumar Choudhay (50) - was found murdered in Churu district, police said he was kidnapped from Haryana's Narnaul area in an SUV by at least six persons on Wednesday. Names of some suspects, including Anil alias Pandya, Ramlal Jat and Pappu alias Pappiya are said to have come up during preliminary investigation.

Choudhary was taken to an undisclosed location from Narnaul where he was shot dead. His body was later dumped near Churu's Ratangarh town. It was recovered on Thursday morning. This was revealed by Manoj, Mahipal and Dinesh who were rounded up by the police on Thursday.

Several coincidences in Vijay's elimination

The murder of Vijay Kumar Choudhary, who was to surrender before a Jaipur court on Friday, came with several coincidences. Dara Singh was murdered in the alleged fake encounter on the next day of Diwali in 2006. Choudhary met his fate on the same day six years later.

It was also a coincidence that Choudhary's whereabouts came to the knowledge of several people including his family members and possibly some lawyers about two days prior to his murder when he called his elder brother Ashok saying he would surrender. His murder plot was hatched in a period of two days and executed.

Senior police officers refused to elaborate what conspired during the interrogation of three men Manoj alias Manohar, Mahipal and Dinesh. These men had been rounded up a few hours after Choudhary's body was recovered. They had been seen last with Choudhary.

Police sources did not rule out the possibility that he was hiding in some foreign country. His passport was issued on October 19, 2008. In the chargesheet, the CBI has mentioned the passport was re-issued from the Consulate General of India's office in Dubai.

On the basis of his visits to Dubai before he was declared a proclaimed absconder, the police suspect that he might have come to Jaipur from Dubai. Sources said that police found a Rado watch and expensive imported cloths on his body.

Sources said that the CBI would have tried to turn him an approver in the case due to the importance of his role prior to Dara Singh's encounter. As per the chargesheet filed by the CBI, Choudhary had handed over Dara Singh to SOG team headed by suspended ADGP AK Jain.

However, as per the alleged statement of Choudhary's family members to the police after his murder, he had told his brother that he has been wrongly implicated in the encounter case. It possibly showed his intensions of going through the trial in the case and not to turn approver, sources said.

As per the CBI chargesheet, Dara Singh came in contact with Choudhay in March 2005 as both were in same business. Soon the initial acquaintance turned into friendship and business partnership. Choudhary had made him stay at the house of one Asgar Peer when Singh received threats from the supporters of chief whip in the state assembly Rajendra Rathore, the chargesheet said.